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Compacted

Compact \Com*pact"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Compacting.]

  1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.

    Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone.
    --Blackstone.

  2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

    The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
    --Eph. iv. 16.

Compacted

Compacted \Com*pact"ed\ (k[o^]m*p[a^]kt"[e^]d), a. Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

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compacted
  1. Closely or densely packed together. v

  2. (en-past of: compact)

Usage examples of "compacted".

This is just like the invasion of Italy in 553 by the Alamannic brethren, and is quite in keeping with the loosely compacted character of the Merovingian monarchy, in which it was copied by the Anglian and Saxon Kingdoms.

Ithaca 37 pump S-shot with pistol grip and stock and a Mossberg 12-gauge bullpup 8-shot with sights fore and aft and compacted stock.

This one favoured the spiral path, circling ever inward as if her feet were tracing the inside of a giant nautilus shell, a miniature Guggenheim Gallery compacted into two dimensions.

Its compressed and compacted state had ground out the nulls and created the overlaps with countless worlds around the few untouched areas, the hubs, and it had been populated from the outplanes long after things had settled and developed for billions of years.

Philosophical Luddism when he heard it, Dundas hurried past, striding up a ramp of compacted soil and finally into the aboveground world.

The unbreakable plastic lens was heavy, but the scope compacted smaller than binocs and was perfect for a one-eyed man.

Bags of grain and bundles of hay had been compacted into every cranny in hopes of keeping the beasts fed until they reached their new pastures beyond the Western Sea.

Dying horses quivered on the compacted rye, while wounded Cuirassiers struggled to unburden themselves of helmets and armour before limping away.

It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core.

KK-drive projector when the Sstakoun was struck by a second compacted helix of furious energy emitted by the azoic planetary core.

Probing the processor, Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.

Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.

Teacher, the imposing strength of the KK-drive field shunted itself and everything contained within it from ordinary space into that strange region of compacted reality known colloquially as space-plus.

It fired a ball made of compacted pliant feces—which at this point was largely reprocessed strange attractors.

And this kind of prophecy, as it were compacted and commingled of both the others in the ancient canonical books, containing historical narratives, is of very great significance, and has exercised and exercises greatly the wits of those who search holy writ.